[Illustration: From “Children’s Stories from French Fairy Tales”]
CHILDREN’S STORIES FROM THE NORTHERN LEGENDS
BY M. DOROTHY BELGRAVE AND HILDA HART
ILLUSTRATED BY HARRY G. THEAKER
Those entrancing legends of the Icelandic and Scandinavian poets are here recounted in a cohesive and lucid style suitable for boys and girls, thus in an easy way introducing the famous and fantastic heroes and heroines of Norse Mythology. The beautiful colour pictures, with the black and white drawings, are full of poetry and interest. Printed on rough art paper. 12 full-page colour plates. 144 pp. letterpress, crown 4to.
CHILDREN’S STORIES FROM LONGFELLOW
BY DORIS ASHLEY
(NEW EDITION)
An admirable collection of the most famous poems, delightfully translated into prose, and profusely illustrated with exquisite pictures in colour and black and white by Harold Copping, A. Dixon, M. Bowley and others, rendering the readers anxious for, and appreciative of, such poems as “The Golden Legend,” “Evangeline,” and “Hiawatha,” which, with other favourites, are placed before them in this attractive guise. To this new edition more pictures have been added. Printed on rough art paper. 10 full-page colour plates. 144 pp. letterpress, crown 4to.
CHILDREN’S STORIES FROM ENGLISH HISTORY
TOLD BY E. NESBIT AND DORIS ASHLEY
Some of the most noteworthy and interesting historical events woven into entertaining stories, and so of great value in indelibly impressing them upon the mind. The volume is charmingly illustrated throughout by the late John H. Bacon, A.R.A., Howard Davie, M. Bowley, and other popular artists. Printed on rough art paper. 9 full-page colour plates. 144 pp. letterpress, crown 4to.
[Illustration: From “Alice in Wonderland"]
CHILDREN’S STORIES FROM THE POETS
BY M. DOROTHY BELGRAVE AND HILDA HART
ILLUSTRATED BY FRANK ADAMS
Characters and incidents in the works of Chaucer, Pope, Keats, Milton, Browning, and other great poets, teeming with interest, and with which all minds should be conversant, are here presented in extremely fascinating prose narrative, beautifully illustrated in colour and black and white by Frank Adams. Printed on rough art paper. 12 full-page colour plates. 144 pp. letterpress, crown 4to.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
ILLUSTRATED BY MABEL LUCIE ATTWELL
An exceptionally attractive edition of the popular Fairy Tale by Lewis Carroll, characteristically and charmingly illustrated with many black and white drawings and full-page colour plates. This story, which will hold its own as long as dreams are dreamed, is here presented in a worthy setting, and one which will meet with universal approbation. Printed on rough art paper. 12 full-page colour plates. 152 pp. letterpress, crown 4to.